House prices

Cemetery proximity has grave impact on house prices

Living next door to a cemetery could potentially knock almost 25% off the value...

Rickmansworth the most expensive M25 town

Halifax has revealed that, since opening 30 years ago this week, the average house price...

Land Registry reveals September price paid data

The latest Price Paid Data from the Land Registry includes details of over 95,300 residential...

Market town premium continues

People seeking to buy a home in one of England’s most picturesque market towns will...

ONS: 1.3% monthly rise in house prices

The Office for National Statistics' (ONS) UK House Price Index for August 2016 has shown...

93% of London properties sold for over £200k

In 1995, 87% of properties sold in London were for less than £150,000, according...

House price inflation and transactions continue to slow

House prices rose up by the narrowest of margins in September, with the average...

Easing in annual rate of house price growth

House prices in the three months to September were 5.8% higher than in the...

IHT to hit home for 585,000 UK millionaires in 2020

NFU Mutual has calculated there was a 27% rise in the number of millionaires...

Nationwide: softening in annual house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that the pace of annual house price growth...

Investec to hold broker event on Brexit and London market

Investec Private Banking is holding a broker insight event on the evening of 13 October, to provide...

Huge house price saving from one hour’s commute

Those people working in London could save themselves almost £450,000 (60%) on the cost of...

London asking prices down 3% since mid-June

The UK housing market remains "alive and active", according to analysis of the UK...

House prices up 8.3% year-on-year

The Land Registry's July data shows an annual price increase of 8.3%, which takes...

COMMENT

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

Latest news

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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